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The Missouri Compromise
The Senate and the House of representatives tried to maintain a balance of power between slaveholding states and free states. -
Compromise of 1850
It was five bills that were passed. 1, California became a free state. 2. Mexico, and Utah were allowed to use popluar sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery.3. Texas gave up lands to Mexico, and paid 10 million dollars to mexico for debt. 4. Slave trade was ablosihed in the district of Columbia. 5. The fugitive slave act was put into play. -
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
The local government had to capture the escaped slaves and return them back to their owners. -
Bleeding Kansas
Pro slavery and free state settlers tried to influence residents . Some people wanted kansas to be a free state and others wanted it to be a slave state. Fights broke out among the two to fight for control. -
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Settlers didnt want to move their because they could not legally claim and hold the land in Nebraska. -
Bleeding Sumner’ Brooks-Sumner fight
Preston Brooks was angry and he was looing for senate Charles Sumner. When brooks found sumner , he beat up sumner, leaving him unconsious and bloody. -
Dred Scott Decision
Dred scott was a black slave. He was taken from his free state and moved to a slave state. He tried to sue, but he want able to because he was african american. -
Election of 1860
The northern states suggested stephen douglas to represent the black republicans. The south seen Douglas as a traitor because he supported the popular sovereignty . The north chose Douglas, while the south chose John C breckenridge to represent them. -
Battle of Fort Sumter, 1861
General beauregard opened fire on the Union garrison holding fort sumter. The next day theu surrenedered the fort and it was evacuated. -
The Union’s ‘Anaconda Plan’
It was a strategey to defeat the confederacy at the begining of the civil war. -
Battle of Antietam
It was a battle fought in sharpsburg, that resulted in the bloodiest day of the american civil war. -
Battle of Gettysburg
Robert lee invaded the norh trying to defeat the union army . He later retreated. -
South Carolina secedes from Union
While electing Licoln for president, sttes stared to secede from the union. Then the confederacy was formed.